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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he feels "fit as can be," Producer Daniel Frohman, 86, wrote his own obituary, listing his achievements in 64 years of show business, sent the story to all Manhattan newspapers. Said he: "I might be run down by an auto, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...still going at close to full blast (because of war demand and the fact that people have yet to stop driving their cars). In that region trade in January was off a mere .1%. Last week salesmen were calling Dun & Bradstreet to report: "In Texas they don't know a depression exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where & Why | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...securities and cash belonging to the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, which he had had in his custody and had pledged for a personal loan. Had George Whitney known that there were several million dollars involved in other fraudulent deals? No, said Dick Whitney wearily, "So far as I know, he knew nothing about the rest until it all became public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aghast | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...have puzzled over this phenomenon, asking almost as many questions as they have answered. How did it happen, for example, that the parties in the U. S., unlike those of the European democracies, were not identified with a particular section or class? How was it possible, Bryce wanted to know, for two great nationwide organizations to fight as bitterly as did the Republicans & Democrats over the Hayes-Tilden election, without plunging the country into civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wordy Warriors | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...tails again," he wrote, when the caravan was delayed by bandits. "This ibn Haremis gang is a rare one. . . . Such a set of walleyed, crooknosed, squinting, oneeyed, scarfaced cutthroats and slit-purses I have never seen. ... I imagine they'd be very good fellows if you got to know them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roving Writer | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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